From the Liveblog of
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Top justice defends Azaria judges against attacks
Amid a flurry of threatening messages against military tribunal judge Maya Heller of the Elor Azaria conviction, Supreme Court president Miriam Naor releases a statement excoriating those who would level what she calls “unbridled attacks” on justices.
“We strongly condemn the flagrant attacks that we are witness to now, which have no place in a civilized society,” Naor writes in a statement on behalf of herself and the other judges on the bench. “Pointed criticism of verdicts are of course legitimate, but what is happening now crosses all lines of legitimate discourse and represents a threat to the rule of law and democracy.”
Security has been stepped up around Heller and the other two judges on the panel that convicted Azaria Wednesday, amid reports of thousands of threats of violence against them on social media and elsewhere.
The Times of Israel Community.